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yellowcanine

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1. Filing in the "Having it Both Ways" Folder

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:54 AM

Jan 2013

When it comes to the health care law and contraception, the Catholic institutions want to invoke conscience and God's law but when it comes to something which will impact their bottom line they want to invoke state law.

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U.S. Catholic bishops review lawsuit saying fetuses not people [View all] Eugene Jan 2013 OP

Filing in the "Having it Both Ways" Folder yellowcanine Jan 2013 #1

Massive kick for the pure and unadulturated irony!!!!! nt MADem Jan 2013 #2

Ya know, sometimes dogma can be just too dogmatic. rurallib Jan 2013 #3

Yep, this is a really bizarre twist of events. cbayer Jan 2013 #4

Lawyers don't decide which defenses to assert jberryhill Jan 2013 #5

As is their habit, I suspect the church thought that no one would notice cbayer Jan 2013 #7

Oh absolutely jberryhill Jan 2013 #8

In all fairness to the Church... jberryhill Jan 2013 #6